Anselm Kiefer
dal 27/3/2007 al 2/9/2007
Segnalato da
27/3/2007
Anselm Kiefer
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
This exhibition, organized within the context of the Museum's Tenth Anniversary, will show these works and place them in context, together with the artist's production of the last ten years, including a painting on a monumental scale, created specifically for the Atrium of the Museum. The display is structured thematically around a large series of works that the artist has been working on since the 90s. Curated by Germano Celant.
Solo show
Curated by Germano Celant
A leading figure of Neo-expressionism, Anselm Kiefer is also one of the seminal artists in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection. Indeed, his works have been shown in the Museum on a number of occasions since its inauguration. In 2007, coinciding with the Museum’s Tenth Anniversary, a major exhibition will show these works and contextualize them within the art Kiefer has produced in the last ten years, including a monumental, site-specific painting conceived specifically for the Museum Atrium. Anselm Keifer is the largest anthological exhibition of his work in recent years and will also create a mythic dimension between the power of Kiefer’s work and Frank O. Gehry’s architecture.
This theme-based exhibition explores the major motifs developed by the artist since the 1990s. In the classical galleries on the second floor, sequences on Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov and on the poet Paul Celan will be displayed. Other exhibition areas on the second floor will be taken up by large-scale paintings from the Chevirat Ha-Kelim series inspired by the Cabbala that he produced for the Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière chapel, over nine meters high; works evoking the observatory built by Sawai Jai Singh II in Jaipur; and twenty or so beds of lead, presided over by an enormous canvas, bringing the viewer to the Women of the Revolution, which recall the great female figures of the French Revolution. In gallery 208 a colossal cement staircase in ruins establishes a dialogue with a work from the Museum collection Only with the Wind, Time and Sound, both of which explore a process of spiritual searching. On the Museum third floor, a major feature will be a large frieze with thirty or so paintings from The Secret Life of Plants, together with a significant section devoted to Kiefer’s books that have been such a permanent feature of his oeuvre.
Opening: march 28, 2007
Guggenheim Museum
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 - Bilbao